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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8101167" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 34: Jan/Feb 1987part 2/5Letters: Our first three letters are all from people who want to submit stuff, but aren't quite sure how to go about it. It's not as daunting as it seems! Just make sure you adhere to the tedious legalese and style guidelines and you've got a pretty good shot.The 4th letter is longer than the rest put together, and complains how the decision to move from keeping the same group with each person playing the same character between rounds of a tournament to individual advancement that randomly assembled new groups each time ruined the roleplaying of their series. I think you may be getting a bit too precious about your worldbuilding and lore. That kind of thing is cool in a long-running campaign, but rather a crapshoot in even an extensive multi-round tournament. And finally, we have another demonstration of how their bureaucratic incompetence and delays is losing them members. If you don't give people timely responses, you lose people who are on the fence, and then they'll be long gone by the time you do get your act together. On the Road to the Living City: Well, that definitely explains why our cover stars are so sleep deprived. They've had to deal with not just one, but two different trickster encounters in their recent travels. Definitely the kind of thing to make you decide "We can't stop here, this is Sprite country" and spur the horse 'til it drops in hope of reaching civilisation. So here we introduce another regular feature for the next year or so, a combination of OOC updates on how the construction of the Living City is progressing, and IC short roadside encounters to drop into your games. A curious combination, but one that synergizes well, and makes this still usable today, rather than just a dry historical piece. Not that keen on the two specific encounters in this one, cause, y'know, irritating whimsical trickery, but I like the overall idea, and look forward to seeing some more.</blockquote>

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